flaccid
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On offer: a spread of cheap charcuterie, including “the flaccid processed grey of a turkey ham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
She added that Ford showed symptoms of both types of rabies - encephalitis and flaccid - which was unusual.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
In rare cases, that virus can cause polio-like paralysis in children called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
Or her flaccid, C.Y.A. apology — published in The Hollywood Reporter, no less — that she managed to make all about her.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
I come to the end of things, dear friend, and he waxes mickle; my tides have gone slack and flaccid, while his swell newly to proxigean spring and rush through the gut.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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